Not really a bug but a feature that dissappeared ...

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From: Mark Pearce DTN 543-6584
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 20:46

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Hi,

Recently our emacs was upgraded from:

GNU emacs 18.58.18 Thu apr 9 1992 on SHOVE (vax-vms)

to 

GNU emacs 19.22.7 Thu May 19 1994 on vax-vms (vax-vms)

which we use on our ALPHA AXP boxes running vms

I noticed that 

M-x sort-numerical-fields 

or any sort for that matter does not have sort in reverse order any more.
Was it taken out or moved to a command I can no longer find.  I looked all 
over "SORT" but found nothing.

ie.  

c-u  2  M-x sort-numerical-fields

sorts by numbers in field two, counting from the left

c-u  -2  M-x sort-numerical-fields

sorts in reverse order in 18.58.18

in 19.22.7 this command sorts by field two, counting from the right.

Thanks for your help

Mark Pearce
Palo Alto Design Center
Digital Equip.
181 Lytton Ave. Suite 201
Palo Alto CA 94301

pearce@pa.dec.com

(415) 853-6584

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